State and Revolution: Marx, Lenin, & the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Red Menace
The Withering Away of Democracy
Lennon: Democracy is a form of the state, one of its varieties. Like every state, it consists in organized, systematic application of force against human beings. And i think len in comes straight out and says, he says, we are going to get rid of democracy at a certain point. It's going to go away. When that happens, because class is gone, there is no more majority to wield power over the minority,.democracy itself is going to go Away as well.
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